Bram Vranken
Big Tech campaigner and researcher at @corporateeurope.org. Fighting corporate power ✊
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- Reposted by Bram VrankenWe've updated our Big Tech M&A tracker! The new data reveals that: 🔎 Acquisitions by Big Tech firms Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Apple, and Amazon increased by 30% in 2025 🔎 Big Tech is positioning itself as a key actor in the future of AI, with 15 of those acquisitions being AI-related. (1/3)
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- Reposted by Bram Vranken🤳 Open phone for one thing. 1h later, you remember it again, after feeling your brain melted by doomscrolling and brainrot. That’s not a personal failure — it’s by design. The EU wants to curb it. Big Tech is #lobbying hard to keep you hooked. 👀 our new report 👇 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/a...
- Reposted by Bram Vranken"Restrictions on addictive features would hurt their profits and power." – Olivier Hoedeman, coordinator at @corporateeurope.org and author of the report, told The Brussels Times. Waiting for a response from @ec.europa.eu
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- 🙌 Great investigative research by @obsmultinationales.bsky.social has revealed that the French tech company Capgemini is helping ICE to track down people. 👉 multinationales.org/fr/a-chaud/a... Now Capgemini is selling of its US subsidiary. www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Bram Vranken1 Check out new ‘The Pollution Playbook: how industry blocks regulation of toxic chemicals’ briefing by @ciel.org and @corporateeurope.org on the deceptive tactics used by chemicals industry to keep producing & using their toxic products. ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/p...
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- Reposted by Bram VrankenIsrael's apologists spent over 2 years sowing distrust in the official Gaza death toll. Now the Israeli army quietly accepts that it is actually an underestimate. Eternal shame for the atrocity deniers. They must never be absolved of their guilt.
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- Reposted by Bram VrankenRed Alert: mid-February EU summit aims to accelerate EU deregulation 🚨 EU "Leaders' Retreat" on 12 February, in rural Belgium, will discuss radical proposals to accelerate the #deregulation of EU & national level legislation ⚠️ Read more at #DeregulationWatch ➡️ corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
- Reposted by Bram Vrankenthe absolute disgrace of this...
- Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban aje.news/ljjuww
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- Reposted by Bram Vranken1/ The 🇪🇺 Commission is taking a political chainsaw to hard won social, environmental, and digital protections. We need #RulestoProtect not #Deregulation. Check out our new cartoons below by @cartoonralph.bsky.social and spread the word!
- The Digital Omnibus is a hand-out to Big Tech while threatening our digital rights. ✍️ Share and sign the @wemoveeurope.bsky.social petition to not let Big Tech water down important protections.
- Reposted by Bram VrankenOn 19 November 2025, the European Commission unveiled the new Digital Omnibus, claiming it would “simplify” tech rules. In reality, it reopens laws that protect us from Big Tech abuse, unsafe AI, scams, and online harm.
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- Reposted by Bram Vranken“While we cannot definitively show that industry funding in this area is redirecting attention from products to consumers, our results are consistent with this possibility.” Preprint suggests “industry influence in social media research is extensive, impactful, and often opaque.”🧪
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- Reposted by Bram VrankenThe EU’s “Digital Omnibus” is being sold as simplification. Analysis shows something else: major changes that tilt the rules toward Big Tech-weakening privacy, AI safeguards, and accountability. corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...
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- Reposted by Bram Vranken"The Commission’s deregulation agenda is not just opening the door to Big Tech, it's inviting the far-right in," says @bramvranken.bsky.social New article on the report by @corporateeurope.org and LobbyControl with comments from @ec.europa.eu, who deny the claims.
- Reposted by Bram Vranken🎁 Just before the holidays, the EU Commission granted Big Tech its Christmas wish-list: an unprecedented attack on our digital rights. Together with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social we have mapped how the Digital Omnibus closely matches Big Tech lobby demands. 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...
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- Reposted by Bram VrankenWhat is #lobbying — and why should you care? This new video series breaks down how power, influence, and politics really work behind the scenes. Watch the first episode with @marcellablues.bsky.social and follow along as we unpack lobbying and its impact on everyday life.
- Reposted by Bram VrankenThe EU Commission launched 10 Omnibus packages in 2025, weakening regulatory standards in numerous areas 🚨 We’ve created an ‘Omnibus Tracker’ that provides an up-to-date overview of Omnibus proposals and what’s at stake 🔍 #deregulation #DeregulationWatch www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
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- Another day, another Big Tech revolving door scandal. Former UK chancellor George Osborne is joining OpenAI. Great to see our research on Big Tech's lobby firepower being quoted though 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/b...
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- Reposted by Bram VrankenCorporate lobbying is heating up on the digital omnibus - a Commission proposal that'd axe our digital rights 🪓 Last week lobby groups published a letter calling for "meaningful deregulation". 🧐 But what seems like a letter from European industry, actually has Big Tech fingerprints all over it. 🧵
- Reposted by Bram VrankenBringing the disruption to Brussels: The European Commission encourages its managers to draft policy-making documents with AI, including "explaining/summarising legislative initiatives". According to a newly released Commission document, this will "boost your team's productivity". 🫢
- Will the deregulation of our digital rights by the EU happen with the support of the far right? 🤨 That's what Meta seems to be aiming for, with 3 lobby meetings with far-right MEPs this week alone. VDL's deregulation agenda isn't just opening the door to Big Tech, it's inviting the far right in.
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- Reposted by Bram VrankenAI is a climate issue. AI is a climate crisis.
- A few important points here - Generative AI supercharged data centre growth: lobbyist and substacker lines pretending like this is just streaming are false - Even when you consider much of the projected growth is speculative, the *likely* projects are still MASSIVE media.licdn.com/dms/document...
- Reposted by Bram Vranken🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘆 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗨’𝘀 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗳𝘆 (𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁) 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 With Investigate Europe & EUobserver, we track how EU transparency is being pushed back – from the new "Infosec" bill to Gaza, von der Leyen’s messages & pressure on Aarhus. Read it here: www.ftm.eu/newsletters/...
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